Adding a Custom Processor to the Workflow

You must add your new custom Processor to a workflow before it can be used.

If you add the Processor while the Process Designer is running, the new Processor will not be available until the next time you start Process Designer. Close Process Designer before adding custom Processors.

Perform the following operations on a client machine that can connect to the Process Engine server (on which you installed the new Java™ Archive (JAR) file containing the Step Processor files). This procedure assumes you have already set the Web application properties for either this isolated region or VWServices. See Process Configuration Console for more information.

Registering the Processor

Use the Process Configuration Console to register a custom Processor, as follows:

1. Connect to your Process Engine server, and open the Process Configuration Console.
2. Log on to the proper region. Locate and select the connection point that is associated with the region.
3. Highlight the connection point name, and right-click the highlighted name. Select Properties.
4. From the Isolated Region Properties dialog box, select the Step Processor Info tab.
5. Click Add and enter the following step definition information:
   • Type: Enter either Step or Launch.
   • Name: Enter the name you want to display in the Designer.
   • Language: Enter HTML for all Processors that are HTML. Enter Java only when specifying a Java or JavaServer Pages (JSP) application.
   • Location: Enter the location and name of the modified JSP or HTML file.
   • Width: Enter the width in pixels.
   • Height: Enter the height in pixels.
   • Class Name: Enter the class name only if you specified Java as the language. The class name is the package name containing the modified JAR file. For example, if the JAR was created in the \newStep directory and the class is called newStepApplet, the package name is newstep.newStepApplet.
6. Click OK, and commit the changes.
7. Close Configuration Console.
8. Open Process Designer. The newly added Processor should now display as one of the available Processor options.

Adding the Processor to the Workflow

Use the Process Designer to add a custom Processor to the workflow as follows:

1. Open the Process Designer and select the step for which this Step Processor is to be added on the map.
2. Click the General tab in the Properties pane.
3. Under Step Processor, select the custom Step Processor as the Processor for this step.